UID:
almafu_9959712398602883
Format:
1 online resource (392 p.) :
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14 b&w photographs
ISBN:
9780822378099
Series Statement:
Comparative and international working-class history
Content:
In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile.Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Part I. Gender and the Process of Proletarianization, 1904-1938 --
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Part II. Gender, Culture, and the Politics of Everyday Life --
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Part III. Men and Women on Strike: The Mining Community and the Demise of Populism, 1942-1948 --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822378099
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822378099
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822378099
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822378099
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822378099
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